Nigel Carrington

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Part one Preface of ALIRL or a voyage to other worlds This is a Librivox recording.

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Recording by Nigel Carrington, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom twenty eighteen.

A lyrial or a voyage to other worlds by Vladislaw Lachsimmer.

Preface

When children are shown the wonders of the heavens for the first time in the telescope

Their natural exclamation usually is

Are there any people up there in those planets?

It is an old question, and the affirmative answer is rather supported than overturned by the discoveries of modern science.

When we are told that everything almost that we can see on earth, yea, every particle of dust, has once lived.

We are inclined to think that the same law, which seems to be the dominant law of Earth, i.

e., that nearly all things on Earth's surface either have lived or are now living, may perchance be the general law of the universe.

Our earth is singular in nothing.

In size the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are much larger than

Mercury, Mars, the planetoids and the satellites much smaller.

Venus our twin sister world almost the same.

In form the Earth is nearly a sphere, and so are all or nearly all its fellow worlds.

Some are more flattened at the poles and some less.

The earth is enveloped in an atmosphere.

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